Shrutabodha 39

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[should be light]; O you whose bracelets (kaṅkaṇāni) on both hands (karayoḥ = hastayoḥ) are gleaming (sphuranti = prakāśamānāni)—in the vocative: O woman with gleaming bracelets on your hands (sphuratkarakaṅkaṇe)! By the flavours (rasaiḥ = by six), by the Vedas (vedaiḥ = by four), by the horses (aśvaiḥ = by seven), there should be a caesura (yatiḥ = viśrāmaḥ syāt); that (sā = asau) syllabic metre called hariṇī (hariṇī = etadākhyā vṛttiḥ) is so stated (iti smṛtā = itthaṃ kathitā). Syllables per quarter-verse: 17; triplets: na, sa, ma, ra, sa, light, heavy; caesura: 6, 4, 7; [pattern:] |||, ||s, sss, s|s, ||s, |s. || 39